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LEWISBURG - Bucknell University will host the series, "Avatar: Responses from Earth," this spring and fall. The series is an examination of various real-life cultural perspectives on ecology from "real life" traditions and disciplines on Earth in response to the success of the film "Avatar" as a sci-fi environmental parable, according to Alf Siewers, associate professor of English at Bucknell University. The series opens with the talk, "This Holy Earth: Ecological Vision in the Cosmic Cathedral," with Father Andrew Damick... Damick, who is a founder of the Society for Orthodox Christian History in the Americas, will discuss Christian panentheism as...

On Touchstone Magazine's Mere Comments Blog (October 14, 2005 ), Dr Russell Moore writes: A few years ago, when the evangelical book fad The Prayer of Jabez was in full swing, I joked that the feminist revisionists would respond with their own small devotional volume: The Prayer of Jezebel. Well, now it is here. Fortress Press, the publishing house of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, has announced the publication of The Jezebel Letters, which "combines top-notch biblical scholarship with a fictionalized first-person account of the biblical character." According to the Fortress press release, the book "transforms the stereotype of...